Reciprocal Duty Quotes

Mr. Adams, you may with great truth, assure the United States that whenever they shall fulfill the treaty on their part, I, on my part, will fulfill it in all its particulars.

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

God is thy law, thou mine.

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Those who are obligated to learn are obligated to teach